[Dxspider-support] User database/info seems to vanish
Dirk Koopman
djk at tobit.co.uk
Fri Nov 23 20:39:40 CET 2018
Have you tried deleting your users.v3 and then regenerating it from
user_asc?
Dirk
On 23/11/2018 19:30, Michael Carper, Ph.D. wrote:
> Well, actually, after adding space... I still find that this comes up
> every time I connect (even after filling it out):
>
> Please enter your name, set/name <your name>
> Please enter your QTH, set/qth <your qth>
> Please enter your location with set/location or set/qra
> Please enter your Home Node, set/homenode <your home DX Cluster>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 11:03 PM Michael Carper, Ph.D.
> <mike at wa9pie.net <mailto:mike at wa9pie.net>> wrote:
>
> I'll look into that, Dirk. But since doubling the disk space, the
> original problem I reported has vanished.
>
> Mike, WA9PIE
>
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 6:55 PM Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk
> <mailto:djk at tobit.co.uk>> wrote:
>
> I'm struggling to understand why (one presumes) DXSpider is
> consuming so much disk space.
>
> On GB7DJK I have 20 years of data
>
> spots 3.4G
> logs 5.5G
> debug 1.3G
>
> debug is only so big because I have several users and node
> links, each day is 120-150MB and there will be up to 11 files.
>
> Is there any evidence in the debug files of restarts? (grep
> orft debug/*)
>
> This is what a "normal" restart or stoppage from any signal
> except KILL should look like:
>
> If you find that string in one of your debug files, what
> happens before that? Specifically before the actual start
> string - something like:
>
> 1542243714^DXSpider V1.57, build 135 (git: c60ec0c[r]) started
> 1542243714^Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
>
> "orft we jolly well go" is the end of initialisation and "bye
> bye everyone - bye bye" indicates the end of a controlled
> shutdown (either by command or a TERM or other catchable
> signal). [ed: (cough) older people in the UK may recognise
> these as catch phrases from the TV and radio]
>
> They are there as erm.. "unusual" strings that one can grep for.
>
> 73 Dirk G1TLH
>
> On 23/11/2018 00:14, Michael Carper, Ph.D. wrote:
>> I just doubled the disk space. It's now got (55% free):
>>
>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/sda1 40G 17G 21G 45% /
>> tmpfs 1.8G 0 1.8G 0% /dev/shm
>>
>> Mike, WA9PIE
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 2:57 PM Michael Carper, Ph.D.
>> <mike at wa9pie.net <mailto:mike at wa9pie.net>> wrote:
>>
>> Dirk,
>>
>> The specs on this machine are as follows:
>>
>> Google Cloud Platform
>> Machine type; n1-standard-1 (1 vCPU, 3.75 GB memory)
>> ********
>> Disk Usage (GB)
>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/sda1 20G 18G 1.5G 93% /
>> tmpfs 1.8G 0 1.8G 0% /dev/shm
>> ********
>> Memory Usage (MB)
>> total used free shared buffers cached
>> Mem: 3707 3587 120 0 159
>> 3045
>> -/+ buffers/cache: 382 3324
>> Swap: 0 0 0
>> ********
>>
>> ...maybe it's low on disk space?
>>
>> Mike, WA9PIE
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 6:38 AM Dirk Koopman via
>> Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk
>> <mailto:dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>> wrote:
>>
>> What machine is this running on and what are you
>> using for disk space?
>>
>> Dirk
>>
>> On 15/11/2018 07:36, Michael Carper, Ph.D. via
>> Dxspider-support wrote:
>>> Greetings all.
>>>
>>> Recently, it seems my node (WA9PIE-2) has lost its
>>> user database. The node has probably restarted
>>> without cause.
>>>
>>> I say the node has lots its user database because my
>>> own login is greeted with the following:
>>>
>>> Hello WA9PIE, this is WA9PIE-2 in Prosper, TX
>>> running DXSpider V1.55 build 0.181
>>> ===
>>> Questions about the WA9PIE-2 Global DX Spotting Network:
>>> email: mike at wa9pie.net <mailto:mike at wa9pie.net>
>>> ===
>>> Cluster: 396 nodes, 344 local / 3207 total users
>>> Max users 6269 Uptime 3 22:26
>>> Please enter your name, set/name <your name>
>>> Please enter your QTH, set/qth <your qth>
>>> Please enter your location with set/location or set/qra
>>> Please enter your Home Node, set/homenode <your home
>>> DX Cluster>
>>> WA9PIE de WA9PIE-2 15-Nov-2018 0727Z dxspider >
>>>
>>> I've logged into my own node many times and have set
>>> all these values. Why would it lose them? Why would
>>> it restart?
>>>
>>> Has anyone else seen this happen? Does anyone know
>>> what I can do to avoid it and get the node back to
>>> "normal?"
>>>
>>> Mike, WA9PIE
>>>
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